Tag: WordPress

Login to WordPress from Python

I’ve been trying to learn some Python and have been tinkering with the requests module. Here is how I am able to log into a webpage, such as WordPress.

import requests
 url = "https://techish.net/wp-login.php"
 redirect_to  = "https://techish.net/wp-admin/"
 with requests.Session() as session:
     post = session.post(url, data={
         'log': 'admin',
         'pwd': 'password',
         'redirect_to': redirect_to
         }, allow_redirects=True)
     get = session.get(redirect_to, cookies=post.cookies)
     print(get.text)

WordPress TwentyTwenty Theme – Inter font Apache2 error

I’m testing out the development version of TwentyTwenty theme from WordPress on this site.

I noted that calls to /assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright.var.woff2 were causing some grief for Apache2 (Error 500):

AH00681: Syntax error in type map, no ':' in /var/www/clients/client0/web1/web/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright.var.woff2 for header wof2

Cursory Google search indicates that Apache2 is interpreting filenames with .var.* in the name as a Type Map.

To work around this, I’ve set the following in my .htaccess:

RemoveHandler .var

WP Preserve Backslashes

I created a WordPress plugin based on a personal dilemma I ran into with my site being stripped of backslashes.

Upon post save, it converts backslashes to HTML entity ] which is what will be stored in the database.

The plugin is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rjkreider/wp-preserve-backslashes
Here’s the function if you want to just drop it in your functions.php file instead of installing it as a plugin.

function wppb_keepbackslash($PostID) {
    $thePost = get_post($PostID);
    $Content = str_replace('\\', '\', $thePost->post_content);
    // unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely
    remove_action( 'save_post', 'wppb_keepbackslash' );
    $UpdatedPost = array (
          'ID'           => $PostID,
          'post_title'   => $thePost->post_title,
          'post_content' => $Content
        );
  wp_update_post( $UpdatedPost );
/** if (is_wp_error($post_id)) {
 $post_id=   wp_update_post( $UpdatedPost );
        $errors = $post_id->get_error_messages();
        foreach ($errors as $error) {
                echo $error;
        }
}   **/
    // re-hook this function
    add_action( 'save_post', 'wppb_keepbackslash' );
}
add_action('save_post', 'wppb_keepbackslash' ); // Update Content when saving content

All my backslashes are gone in WordPress. Yikes.

Discovered that my most recent conversion from SQLite to MySQL seems to have screwed up my backslashes in all my posts that have backslashes.

This is bad because my code snippets should not be copy & pasted and run at face value unless you verify the code!  It could seriously break shit.

Ugh.  This is going to be a PITA to go and fix 500 posts.   It might be quicker to try to fix the SQLite DB file and try another conversion.  This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed this problem.  I see the issue when I restore from XML files as well, and even just copying database using something like mysqldump to dump and then importing using mysql command.  I’m probably just missing a simple flag to not strip slashes or something.

My next step is to confirm if there is actually a backslash in the SQL data and it is just being stripped in the_content() or something;  or if the backslash is REALLY not there.  *sad face*

update 1:  the slashes are not in SQL.  Looks like I need to look at my export DB to see if they are in that. *crosses fingers*

update 2:  found this article that creates a function to convert backslashes into HTML entities as the posts are saved.  https://www.tweaking4all.com/web-development/wordpress/preserve-backslash-in-posts/#comment-268277